pulhas
Portuguese, noun
pulhas is spelled P-U-L-H-A-S (6 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese, the 104,744th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pulhas is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “hurtful criticism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “críticas que ferem”.
What does pulhas mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininehurtful criticism
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. críticas que ferem
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How common is pulhas in Portuguese?
pulhas appears about once in every 12 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).